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1861–1923

BLUE IRIS

Maurice Henry Hewlett

Blue is the Adrian sea, and darkly blue The Ægean; and the shafted sun thro’ them, That fishes grope to, gives the beamy hue Rayed from her iris's deep diadem.

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